{"id":5143,"date":"2026-06-01T12:57:46","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T12:57:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/transform.nrw\/transformationsort\/island-cultural-garden\/"},"modified":"2026-09-10T14:32:49","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T14:32:49","slug":"island-cultural-garden","status":"publish","type":"transformationsort","link":"https:\/\/transform.nrw\/en\/transformationsort\/island-cultural-garden\/","title":{"rendered":"Island Cultural Garden"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\u00a9 Anna Schwartz<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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\u00a9 Uta Atzpodien<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n

Located directly behind the outstanding, transdisciplinary cultural venue INSEL and Caf\u00e9 ADA\u2014renowned since the 1980s\u2014the INSEL Cultural Garden has been connecting people of all cultures with the local natural environment since 2021, demonstrating how natural climate adaptation works in an urban setting. Here, public space becomes a real-world laboratory for socio-ecological transformation. Between the boules court, the beer garden, and a green mini-arena, people are actively removing paving, digging, sowing, and planting. Gardening together brings people together. As people create raised beds, tend to the species-rich split-bed garden, and build the integrated rainwater harvesting system, they come into real contact with the earth. A green and colorful rooftop garden has thus emerged on the container housing INSEL\u2019s chair storage. Here, culture is not an outsider but a driving force. Artistic events such as readings, music, dance, and painting, as well as small culinary surprises, explore and celebrate the everyday coexistence of people, plants, and animals. Through our creative appropriation of urban green spaces, we are creating a vibrant space where art and ecology enrich one another. The INSEL Cultural Garden is supported by strong partnerships, including with Performing for Future, the Earth Charter Initiative, and the Kulturkindergarten, as well as other independent cultural practitioners. Together, we are shaping a livable city for today and tomorrow\u2014through gardening, on equal footing with nature. <\/p>\n\n

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